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Miles Archer

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Tue Feb 3, 2026, 07:51 AM Feb 3

So the #1 headline on the news aggregate sites this morning is Trump wanting to "take over" elections [View all]

His rationale, if you can call it that, is that he won every state he lost, by bigly yuge margins, "everyone knows this" and "everyone tells him it's true," so the only reasonable solution is to leap-frog over the Constitution and states' rights YET AGAIN and seize the ballots and control the manner in which votes are counted so that ONLY REPUBLICANS CAN WIN ELECTIONS.

We have officially reached the "saying the quiet part out loud" phase, a fascist dictator move to retain power and cock-block the opposition party from making any possible gains.

It's NOT UP TO TRUMP. It's UP TO THE STATES. And here's a little nugget to ponder:

Democratic secretaries of state said they were reluctant to provide explicit details about their advance planning for fear of alarming voters or providing a roadmap for any bad actors. But they said their preparations were evolving with the novel risks posed by the administration.

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